The Incredible Hiatus Tiny House by Tongue & Groove Tiny Homes for their Cottage Community/Development in Bend, Oregon – Built by Tiny SMART House

The Hiatus House was designed by Tongue & Groove Tiny Homes for their cottage community in Bend, OR. Tiny SMART House was hired to build the houses for this development, and is proud to announce that the model home is officially complete!

Please request more information about this tiny house here. If you’re interested in moving into this community, you can find some information on how to get started with that at the bottom of this page right here. At the moment, I see four lots available. Lot 5 | Lot 6 | Lot 7 | Lot 8

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Wow – I really think this is nice. The wider layout makes for a real “liveable” space. Since it doesn’t appear to be a towable home, I think I would have added a little height to make the loft area stand-up, but that’s a detail I am sure. I love the bicycle garage and outdoor area. Very nice. I wonder what this build costs?

Well, as a PreFab house it’s not on wheels but it was still delivered to the site and could be moved again the same way… So it can only be as tall as what’s allowed on Oregon’s roads, which is 14’… Colorado and Nebraska go up to 14′ 6″ and Alaska is the highest at 15’… There are areas you can go higher and beyond what’s allowed for the rest of the state but if you have to transport it any significant distance then that can be a restriction, especially, if crossing state lines, and is why most limit to 13′ 6″ so they can be delivered anywhere in the country.

Mind, the difficulty of getting it past street lights, power lines, bridges, and other vertical obstructions if it’s over height…

So it would have to be either site built or modular to get around that limitation, as then it’s just a question of what the building codes/zoning laws allows for maximum height in the area and in Oregon that’s usually up to 30 feet for a residential home but ADU’s may have a lower limit, if you’re adding it to an existing property…

Though, thanks to Oregon’s Reach Code, there’s usually more options than you would get in other states for both Tiny Houses on foundations and on wheels… Even the option to take a THOW off its wheels and put it into a foundation as long as it meets the 2018 IRC ICC…

You have to follow the links for the details, article is only a summary…

But, basically, a tiny house community hired a tiny house builder to make homes for the community and they’re selling the homes and the lots they’re on for people to own and live in the community… So price isn’t just for the house but the lot of land it’s on…

It appears they had 4 lots available but one is now listed as sold and it closed at $229K. So the $249K for the other three may actually be negotiable a bit.

Each home is listed as 477 Sq Ft on 0.05 acre (2178 Sq Ft) lot…

The builder they hired is Tiny Smart House, they don’t list the price for just the house but if you order this model direct from them they indicate they can be sized from 16′-44′ length and either 8′ 6″ width or 10′-12′ width… So they can basically go from about 128 Sq Ft on up to 528 Sq Ft, not counting the loft… and you can fill out the contact/info request form on their site to get a quote…

Wow…. WOW…. Woooooowwwwwww. This is incredible. So spacious looking (reality might be different though) and only negative, and its a personal one, is the tiles. Hate with a passion tiles laid at 45°. Actually, I don’t like tiles much anyway. But this place really does blow me away. Look out Antarctica here I come. Wooosh….

This is a very nice tiny home..Very elegant yet rustic. I was reading the comments above and would like to know the size of the lot and the separation of lot price and home price? Also does the lot have electric water and sewer already set up.On a side note I agree with you both about price.If one looks at what some builders are charging for some new tiny homes the price is equal to if not much more per square foot then a traditional built home.Ive had this issue in the past when pricing a traditional type trailer versus a teardrop style. Know matter how much I twisted the logic the 25k to 35k for a teardrop just cannot be justified.So in this situation if you took the lot price of say 75k and then built a traditional style home with what’s left out of the 249k what would you get? Again that’s just my logic as for me smaller should not mean more expensive per square foot.

You’d have to contact the builder to find out what just the house cost but this isn’t on a trailer, it’s a prefab house.. Prefab and modular houses are just like regular houses. They’re just constructed in a factory and delivered to a site but once placed on the site it’s considered the same as a site built house… So meets local building codes, has standard utility connections, gets put on a type of foundation, etc.

While it should be understood that cost per square foot is a mostly useless metric that doesn’t actually tell you anything like the actual value of the home, how well built it is, how it will perform, etc. and it’s especially misleading when comparing dissimilar structures because costs of a house is not linear or always for the same things.

For example, things like the kitchen and bathroom are typically the most expensive parts of a house but for larger houses they represent a small percentage of the total square footage so the lower cost parts of the house brings down the average, which is all the cost per square foot really tells you is the average with no details or context on anything else…

While in a tiny house the kitchen and bathroom can represent over 50% of the whole house. So there isn’t as much to help lower the average with a tiny house so it can have a higher cost per square foot even if it cost only a fraction of what the big house cost to build…

There’s also a world of other things it doesn’t tell you… Like how much it cost to actually own and live in it because the additional and ongoing costs of a house can add up to multiple times what it cost to purchase the house over the years you’ll be living in it…

Thing to understand is tiny houses reduces virtually all of those additional and ongoing costs… You pay less property taxes, you won’t need to pay as much for insurance, won’t need as much furniture, you won’t need a lot to properly heat and cool it, it will generally use a lot less utilities, it will be easier to maintain and keep clean, and it can allow for lifestyles a larger house may not even allow… Even the cost of renovations are less…

And there’s lots of different things people can get out of it besides just cost savings… Like making sure it’s a home that’s actually healthy to live in, the ability to live in places they may otherwise not be able to, the ability to have a home that’s tailored to their needs and lifestyle, among many other things that people can’t always find in the traditional housing market…

So there’s just a lot to understand about how it all actually works and what people are actually getting out of it… Because there’s a lot more that effects costs than just size…

I just want to respond to the remark about the government owning land that can’t be built on. I’m referring to many millions of acres set aside for eternity. They’re called national and state parks. Which actually are owned by all Americans. The grizzly bears say thanks,
. The wolves say thanks. The buffalo say thanks. And on and on. No houses, too bad.

Yes, national parks are included in government owned land but they only represent about 11% of it…

Understand, the federal government has done things like use Nevada to run nuclear bomb testing for a good portion of the 20th century… The federal government tend to declare a lot of land protected simply because they don’t want anyone else to use it but that doesn’t mean it’s being put to good use…

The government is actually the worst producers of pollution in the country… Just for military bases we have things ranging from cancer-causing depleted uranium ammunition and armor, to perchlorate rocket fuel leaking from literally hundreds of military plants and installations into the groundwater of 35 states, to the military’s unquenchable thirst for fossil fuels… Massive bureaucracy and mismanagement also accounts for billions in wasted resources every year…

Other factors also contribute to the impact of federally owned land, like it’s locations and how it can divide up the remaining land… So there can be additional limitations placed on what land the state still controls, like portions of land can be surrounded by federally own land and thus can’t be as easily linked to other communities or be sized up as much even if there’s otherwise enough total acreage…

There’s also the issue that the federal government isn’t as directly answerable to the people as the local government and is less responsive and efficient at protecting the environment than the local government would be…

While forcing more people to populate a limited area of land generally generates more waste and pollution and makes people care less about the environment…

Lovely home and looks to have a number of options that could be customized as mentioned above — for a price, of course.

That said, I do have one question. Seeing as how this was made to be placed in Oregon, I don’t understand why there isn’t a roof over the front door. Fumbling for keys while being rained on isn’t fun here in Florida — add cold rain seeping down your collar and — yuck.
This is a small detail and probably easily remedied but I do wonder why it wasn’t included as a matter of course. Yes, the lines of the porch are aesthetically pleasing but this IS Oregon, after all.

If it comes with land . If it is too big. Make room for tiny house not model homes. You could get more homes in there. Or have room for tiny home with a mini garden. I can get a nice Tiny house for $44, 000 and be tiny. Doesn’t need a big loft. . And besides some are on wheels to keep the cost down. I guess it could be a retirement community since it’s permanent. I’m sure the lot utilities and does it have a hoh fee since it’s only one owner with only one builder? Don’t you find that strange not to have at least one other builder. What if you want to live there but have a nice $ 50, 000 tiny house. ? One builder . Really?

I can agree with most of the comments in this article. The first is the price. $249,000 is very overpriced for this type of unit. The majority of people looking into Tiny Houses are looking for very inexpensive housing. You have compared the cost of your home with the surrounding real estate. You cannot compare a 470 sq foot home with one that is 2000 sq feet in terms of price. Remember the purpose of a tiny home is less. Less cost and no mortgage. Your home offers neither. You should go back to the drawing board and design a home for less than $50,000 then you will reach the Tiny House market. Get rid of the high price add ons and you with be on your way.

Aloha,
The beauty of tiny homes is we are not limited in how we think of them. We are only limited by our own creativity. This site we are on welcomes the full range of voices and opinions in the tiny home comunity

There are expensive ones and less expensive. Our first tiny home (THOW) ( 16ft) was a total cost 16K, 11 on materials , 5 k on labor. Some on this site are even cheaper.

The home in this thread is obviously high end but that is what some folks are looking for….so no worries

If love it, you love it, if not, that is ok too as we are all here intentionally to share and help each other grow and get bigger in our knowledge of tiny

After looking at the pictures, I read the comments. Wow! I have to be from another planet altogether. I’m NOT happy with this house at all. Everything is designed to appeal to and appease the folks looking for small, yet environmentally friendly living. As for inexpensive…. forget about it!
Yet everything is designed to just pretend. Practically, the only thing I liked in this design was the placement of the sink. Near the stove, where it’s needed the most. I don’t need to look out the window doing dishes, while the droplets of filthy water make ugly designs on the glass, windowsill and curtain. My current kitchen has a window above the sink and the cleaning of it is from hell. And I can’t even open the window quickly, because accessing the lock is very hard, even for a tall man. But that sink placement is one of the very few things I appreciated in this “housie”. The bathroom, for me, is a disaster. In the showroom, those black lines between white tiles look cool. Start to use it and you don’t know if the mold that ALWAYS try to make a living in the moist, warm places was scrubbed away completely. Black is NOT a color for places, that should be as sterile, as possible. But that is a much lesser issue than the shower is. In he 21st century, offering only a fixed showerhead s a joke! Is that bathroom made to clean the person, or to spread and smudge the dirt around?! Yuck! Oh well, at least they didn’t get rid of the bathtub.
Their use of plywood is just criminal. Aside from the added weight, there is this environmental problem. The glue between layers is making people sick. While using it in your garage or workshop, for shelving is ok, offering such in a small living environment is just plain criminal. And I mean it. But the builders made sure, you are sold on their environmental health concerns. Look at that carefully placed for the photograph glass bottle of soap with a stainless steel dispenser. Disgusting attitude.
In my opinion, for a quarter of a million everyone can do better. Everyone! What a shame!
If we don’t protest such blatant thievery, we deserve all we get.

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